The materials for this chapter can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/stefmolin/Hands-On-Data-Analysis-with-Pandas/tree/master/ch_03. There are five notebooks that we will work through, each numbered according to when they will be used. We will begin with a discussion about wide versus long format data in 1-wide_vs_long.ipynb. Then, we will collect daily temperature data from the NCEI API, which can be found at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2, in the 2-using_the_weather_api.ipynb notebook. The documentation for the Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCND) dataset we will be using can be found here: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/documentation/GHCND_documentation.pdf.
The NCEI is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As indicated by the URL for the API, this resource was created when the...